Heroic Abolitionists

The story of Calvin Fairbank, the flghting abolitlonist, who spent flve years in the Kentucky penitentiary, with almost daily terrible floggings on his bare back- with anywhere from twenty to a hundred lashes at each flogging- and then, after being liberated, went to freeing slaves again and was kidnaped and sent back for tüirteen years more of confinement and flogging, recalls the many simple, heroic deeds of that day, says the Boston Transcript. Whenever we get hold of an old underground railroad man we feel ourselves in a time of prodigious heroism. The negroes who ran away from slavery invited sufferings worse than slavery. Thlnk of the man who had himself boxed up liko a corpse in the south - in Florida, the Listener thinks it was- and shipped to an address in the north. He had some scraps of food in the coffln and the corners were loose enough to let in a llttle air. But the box was square at the ends, and there was nothing to show whioh was the head and which the foot. Often the negro, almost dead with the rigid confinement, was left lying on his face; and ones stood on his head, the box being leaned up against the side of a freight building, the feet end up. Very soon the man began to suffer agony, of course; he feit that he would die in this position. No matter; he would not reveal himself and go back to slavery. Any death would be preferable to that. So he kept still till he swooned away; and when next he carne to himself he and his coffln were on a moving railroad train. And he did not get out of the box until he arrived at his destination in Massachusetts.